i know someone who’s hiv+ and it’s wild to me *how* intense the stigma still is. she’s so extremely private about it, and i don’t blame her. but it’s just wild that even after all these years and all these developments and education that there’s still so much hate and misunderstanding around it

all the shite uk politicians talk about ireland doing this or that just to be difficult would carry a little more credence if there was any indication that they have ever made the slightest effort not just to learn our old history but, like, pay attention stuff that happened in the last 15 years

@ShrigglepussIf I envision Twitter as a physical space it's a bunch of people in their nicest clothes on mini podiums addressing each other like they're an audience and occasionally getting down to actually chat.

This place is like we're all hanging out, occasionally someone gets onto a podium to say something important but then they get back down again and people chat to them about it, and there's also a load of kids running around screaming about poo. @andi@Jewbacchus

Has anyone else noticed the fediverse is gradually starting to feel more and more like Twitter? I'm doing an uneasy about it and wondering if it's because I follow a probably unreasonable number of people or if I can do something to encourage more respectful(?) discourse that doesn't step on any toes, single anyone out, or come across as being a massive killjoy